Recently we’ve had some unexpected bad performance on a few servers that rely on GlusterFS. Specifically our web servers (Apache + PHP portion of our LAMP stack) took quite a beating with more outages than I’d care to admit.Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of years back I discovered that when a VoIP server would sporadically lose it’s registration to the upstream VoIP provider, and then in spite of re-sending those registration requests would seem completely unable to register. Sometimes when rebooting the device it would then manage to reregister but not always. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the years I’ve used Ericson and Nokia phones mostly. When it became time to start moving into the “smart phone” arena I got a Nokia N9. Then a Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and now the Note 4. Migration (between Android phones) is harder than it should be. Much harder. Read the rest of this entry »

So I’ve got a GlusterFS cluster that is a simple 1×2 distribute-replicate with two bricks (one on each server). So I need to migrate this from one data centre to another with little or no downtime (which means move one server, perform heal, and then go and shut the other and move it too).

Unfortunately I got stuck in the middle with the moved server not wanting to talk with it’s peer again. As it turns out changing the IPs is … hard. Fortunately I used Private (RFC1819) IP addresses in the original setup on a dedicated cable between the two servers.Read the rest of this entry »